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Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer (Technology in Action) Patrick Hood-Daniel, James Floyd Kelly
Publisher: Apress

The robot is fully autonomous and each of its six legs has two degrees of freedom. Naturally, whenever a new technology is created that offers open source DIY opportunities to the average individual, it is going to make governments and their protected corporate interests very nervous. Check it out in action below: He specializes in gaming and technology. The media's succession of 3D gun stories has touched off a brisk ethical debate, but all of them ignore the fact that people have been fabricating their own homemade firearms for generations. The only thing new about the issue is this emerging technology. Looking in more detail at the printer, what The plastic is melted by the print head and squirted out to form the object being printed. Meet Bleuette, a free hexapod robot that can be created with a 3D printer. All sixteen pieces of the Liberator prototype were printed in ABS plastic with a Dimension SST printer from 3D printing company Stratasys, with the exception of a single nail that's used as a firing pin. At the time of the publication of this post, the whole of the news media is agog at the discovery that private citizens are using home 3D printers to create functioning plastic handguns. The software is open source: slic3r to convert a 3D model into printing instructions, and pronterface to talk to the 3D printer. Now, THAT's technology in action! Last week I attended the Monki Gras, a distinctive event exploring how to scale craft, mainly in the context of technology but also in the context of beer. If so, your dreams of kickstarting the robot apocalypse can be fulfilled with just a 3D printer, some simple software and a bit of electrical knowhow. Make Your Own 3D Printed Six-Legged Robot a fully autonomous robot?